First Place Quotes

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I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place. — Paul Merton
There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get… — James Hunt
If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place. — Frank Robinson
It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision… — Dinaw Mengestu
In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl,… — Edward Abbey
If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences,… — Albert Ellis
It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how… — Fredric Jameson
I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not… — Boris Becker
People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's… — Robert Rauschenberg
We become sad in the first place because we have nothing stirring to do. — Herman Melville
Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.'… — John C. Maxwell
The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself,… — Kathleen Battle
There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film… — Akira Kurosawa
You get moments all the time that kind of make you pinch yourself, some of them make you quite emotional. Winning a BRIT was a… — Harry Styles
But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a… — Madeleine Albright
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where… — Ross Douthat
How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican. — Will Durst
Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just… — Bryan Mosley
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,… — Brian Kernighan
What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character… — Plato

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